A medium to large Rusula, purplish red in the cap found growing in scattered groups or solitary in comiferous woodland, specifically with Pine.
Locally frequent from Summer till Autumn.
Grows in coniferous woodland specifically with Pine.
Initially convex, then flattened and depressed with age, purplish to brownish-red with ochraceous ot greenish tinges, slightly tacky when moist, smooth, the cuticle peeling marginally.
Cap flesh is whitethen pallid straw, brittle and granular, stem flesh colour as in cap, brittle and full. Odour slightly fruity, taste very hot.
Adnexed, decurrent, forked, brittle, initially primrose in colour then a pale golden-yellow, narrow and occasionally weeping.
More or less clavate, smooth, white, flushed lilac or greyish-rose, ring absent.
Inedible
